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  1. John Steinbeck _ The Winter of Our Discontent

    The martinis came, not in little glasses but big as bird baths with twists of lemon peel. The first taste bit like a vampire bat, made its little anesthesia, and after that the drink mellowed and toward the bottom turned downright good.
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  2. John Steinbeck _ The Winter of Our Discontent

    Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that's what he wants. Mostly it's women or clothes or admiration he really wants and they deflect him.
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  3. John Steinbeck _ The Winter of Our Discontent

    Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess.
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  4. John Steinbeck _ The Winter of Our Discontent

    I guess we're all, or most of us, the wards of that nineteenth-century science which denied existence to anything it could not measure or explain. The things we couldn't explain went right on but surely not with our blessing. We did not see what we couldn't explain, and meanwhile a great part of the world was abandoned to children, insane people, fools, and mystics, who were more interested in what is than in why it is. So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic, because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out.
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  5. John Steinbeck _ The Winter of Our Discontent

    In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.
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  6. John Steinbeck _ The Winter of Our Discontent

    I do love her, and that's odd because she is everything I detest in anyone else.
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  7. John Steinbeck _ The Winter of Our Discontent

    My wife, my Mary, goes to her sleep the way you would close the door of a closet. So many times I have watched her with envy. Her lovely body squirms a moment as though she fitted herself into a cocoon. She sighs once and at the end of it her eyes close and her lips, untroubled, fall into that wise and remote smile of the Ancient Greek gods. She smiles all night in her sleep, her breath purrs in her throat, not a snore, a kitten's purr... She loves to sleep and sleep welcomes her.
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  8. John Steinbeck _ The Winter of Our Discontent

    There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.
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  9. John Steinbeck _ The Winter of Our Discontent

    I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were. If you saw one you'll know what I mean. Remember after all the cape work when the bull tries to kill something that isn't there? Remember how he gets confused and uneasy, sometimes just stands and looks for an answer? Well, then they have to give him a horse or his heart will break. He has to get his horns into something solid or his spirit dies. Well, I'm that horse. And that's the kind of men I get, confused and puzzled. If they can get a horn into me, that's a little triumph.
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  10. John Steinbeck _ The Winter of Our Discontent

    The words are meaningless except in terms of feeling. Does anyone act as the result of thought or does feeling stimulate action and sometimes thought implement it.
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  11. John Steinbeck _ The Winter of Our Discontent

    Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops or punishes? There doesn't seem to be. The only punishment is for failure. In effect no crime is committed unless a criminal is caught."
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  12. John Steinbeck _ The Winter of Our Discontent

    Nobody changes. Nobody gets hurt.
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